Prominent Attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh Detained Amid Iranian Judiciary’s Crackdown on Human Rights Lawyers
Iranian human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh previously served three years in prison ...
Iranian human rights attorney Nasrin Sotoudeh previously served three years in prison ...
Eight detained members of the Sufi Gonabadi Order have gone on hunger strike at the Great Tehran Penitentiary (GTP) to protest prison conditions and the state’s ongoing ...
List Not Finalized According to Judicial Official Iran’s judiciary has not released the names of the 20 state-approved lawyers exclusively allowed to represent detainees ...
Sepideh Jandaghi is a professional singer who's unable to perform solo in Iran because she's a woman. The Islamic Republic's laws and customs also makes ...
Sepanta Niknam was suspended from the Yazd City Council for being a member of the Zoroastrian faith. Suspended Zoroastrian ...
Iranian poet and filmmaker Baktash Abtin has been sentenced and fined in Iran for posting a photo to ...
Civil rights activist Shima Babaei: “They said the hijab is the law and I must respect it. I told them it’s a bad law and I’m protesting against ...
Weakened by his hunger strike, prisoner of conscience Hamidreza Amini was transferred to a hospital in hand and ankle cuffs but was returned to prison before the treatment ...
Hatam Morammezi holding his nephew. Family Threatened to Stay Silent About the Case, ...
Iranian human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003. “Note to Article 48” Limits Detainees’ Counsel Choices to 20 State-Approved Lawyers Nobel Peace ...
Human rights lawyers in Iran are speaking out against a list released by the judiciary designating 20 state-approved lawyers to exclusively represent detainees held on politically motivated charges. “A number of lawyers ...
Payam Vali’s manufacturing business was shuttered ...
The CEO of Iran’s Soroush messaging app, Meysam ...
Father Claims IRGC’s Intelligence Organization is Cooking Up Case Against His Activist Son Reformist political activist Mohammadreza Jalaeipour, an Oxford ...
More than 100 Iranian artists and movie industry personalities have urged President Hassan Rouhani to lift the state ban ...
Former Presidential Candidate Mehdi Karroubi Detained in His Home Without Trial Since 2011 An Iranian cleric and former presidential candidate who has been restricted ...
Several Iranian celebrities publicly turned down President Hassan Rouhani’s invitation to attend a Ramadan “iftar” dinner scheduled for May ...
Fifteen negotiators representing protesting farmers in the southern Iranian province of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad were arrested on May 29, 2018, as ...
Ten striking workers at Iran's Heavy Equipment Production Company (HEPCO) in the city of Arak, south of Tehran, were charged with ...
Iran’s Education Ministry is violating Iranian law and the country’s commitments to the UN Convention on ...
Police and security forces blocked an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the anti-censorship Iranian Writers Association...
The Baha'i International Community (BIC) at the United Nations has expressed alarm over a spate of arrests of Baha’i ...
Bullets fired by police in the city of Kazeroon, Fars Province, killed two men—Ali Mohammadian and Azad Omid Reza Yousefian—during protests ...
Mohammad Salas’ Attorney Zeynab Taheri Summoned to Court to Face Charges The lawyer of Tehran-based death row prisoner Mohammad Salas...
Imprisoned Dual National Allowed to Speak to UK Ambassador for First Time After being told she is facing the charge of “propaganda against the ...